I'm fairly high up in the corporate org chart and the main reason we do it is because many RFP's we get will require that our company have a fair amount of this "diversity" indoctrination. So we jump through the hoops to be in compliance so that we can win some of these bids (and keep our lights on!)
The upper level executives mostly think it's a bunch of BS and were joking about the fact that only 11 employees joined one of the recent "woke" webinars but their main interest is keeping the company profitable and off the radar of the leftist rage mob that could destroy them on social media otherwise.
Not saying that's right but this is why a lot of corporations are going through the motions on this crapola.
Great post—it is stunning how many large corporations have federal or state .gov as customers—and I agree this drives a lot of the insanity.
The growth of government over the decades has been a cancer on the nation.